Researching William Stubbs
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The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Stubbs on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Stubbs and the Stubbs Genealogy
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Some Famous People called William Stubbs
William Stubbs (Canadian politician)
William Stubbs (July 11, 1847 – December 28, 1926) was a Canadian veterinarian, farmer, and politician.
Born in Caledon Township, Canada West, the son of John Stubbs and Susannah Lauden, who were from County Fermanagh, Ireland and came to Canada in 1824. Stubbs was educated in public school and at the Veterinary College of Medicine in Toronto, where he graduated in March 1868. He was the Ontario Government Veterinary Surgeon for the District of Peel and Cardwell. Stubbs was Deputy Reeve and Reeve of the Township of Caledon for several years. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in an 1895 by-election for the electoral district of Cardwell. An Independent Conservative, he was re-elected in the 1896 election. He was defeated in the 1900 election.
In 1888, he married Annie Gillespie.
Source: William Stubbs (Canadian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Stubbs (educator)
Sir William Hamilton Stubbs (born 5 November 1937) is a Scottish educator. He was Rector of the University of the Arts, London.
Stubbs was born in Hillhead, Glasgow, the son of Joseph Stubbs and Mary Nichol. He was educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and University of Glasgow.
Stubbs served for six years as chief executive of the Inner London Education Authority. Following that, he was chief executive of the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.
He served from 1992 to 1996 as chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England, and was then appointed as rector of the London Institute (later University of the Arts). He was a member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education that published an influential report in 1997.
Source: William Stubbs (educator), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Stubbs
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